What are the chances you will contract Covid-19 on a plane flight? A study led by MIT scholars offers a calculation of that for the period from June 2020 through February 2021.
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MIT researchers estimate the probability of getting Covid-19 on an airplane in the first year of the pandemic surpassed 1 in 1,000 on a totally full flight lasting two hours.
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Before and after the election, there was widespread sentiment that two things should disappear: the pollsters and the Electoral College. But given that this is unlikely to occur, can we imagine less radical changes to the status quo that might bring greater happiness?
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Arnold I. Barnett, George Eastman Professor of Management Science and a Professor of Statistics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, on April 27 at 6:00 PM EDT for a webinar exploring the 2020 U.S. election with the aid of some interesting data.
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